Answer:
1. Mark is one of the neighborhood boys.
2. She put herself in the catalog so she could be bought.
3. She did. Her English was better by the time jack was in high school
4. She died when Jack's plane was somewhere over Nevada
5. She thought they were amazing
6. On Qinming, Laohu came back to life and then unfolded himself into the letter.
7. He asked around asking if anyone spoke Chinese; a young woman agreed to help.
8. I'm not sure.
9. I think he will go back to being the way he was before he decided he didn't like being Chinese.
10. I think he will embrace the paper menagerie again because his mother's letter made him look at things differently